One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences (AMPAS).
Barthelmess made 75 films in the twenty years between his first feature
in 1916 and his semi-retirement from the screen in 1936. He appeared in
only six more films between 1936 and 1942. His silent films number 57.
His early talkies number 19.
Interred at the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA.
Founder of Richard Barthelmess Productions, a film production company, in 1923.
His great uncle, the Reverend William Boone, was the first Episcopal Bishop of Shanghai, China, and his great grandfather was the first Episcopal Bishop in China.
In February of 1914, Barthelmess and another Trinity College student were booked on drunkenness charges. The prosecutor, not wanting to blemish their student records, let them go.